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Movie director Wang Xiaomin is a celebrity. If you search for "Director Wang Xiaomin" on the Internet, you can find information about his career. Director Wang worked as an educated youth in the prairie of Inner Mongolia, joined the army, and was a company-level driving instructor in the army. He graduated from the Central Academy of Drama and was originally a director of the Bayi Film Studio. He served as the deputy director of major Chinese revolutionary historical films "Towering Kunlun", "Battle of Liaoshen" and "Battle of Pingjin", and the film "38th Parallel" Director of more than 20 film and television films including "Female Soldier" and TV series "Yang Zirong". When the digital movie "The Lion King of the East" was shot, it was hot weather in August in the south. Director Wang, who was in his fifties, went shirtless and overcame the discomfort of acclimatization like a desperate man. He led the film crew in Tengxian, Wuzhou and Hezhou for 20 days, working more than ten hours a day. We usually go out to take landscape photos, and we often climb mountains, wade in rivers, and sleep on hills. We pride ourselves on being able to endure hardships and stand hard work, but during the 20 days of filming with Director Wang, we also felt that the hardship was too much. Director Wang, who is usually friendly, easy-going and humble, was too strict with the crew members who were working such a heavy workload. A young man who couldn't stand the scorching heat in the south and delayed his work for a while was severely scolded by Director Wang twice. After going through all the hardships of filming, in March 2007, director Wang Xiaomin sent a sample of "The Lion King of the East" from Beijing that passed the film review of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. After watching the movie, I thought about the Yuenzhou Lions team, which I am familiar with, and more or less witnessed and participated in the production and shooting process of the film, which made me write the following words. First of all, who gave birth to the movie "The Lion King of the East"? After the Xuanzhou Lions failed in their first overseas trip in March 2004, cultural people in Teng County felt that it was necessary to reflect the difficult growth process of such a peasant Lions team in a literary and artistic way. It happened that Guangzhou composer Su Yanhui went home to visit relatives. Huo Zhanping, the county culture and sports director at the time, specially invited him to Yuanzhou to collect music and compose a team song for the Lions team. When Su Yanhui came to Yuezhou Island, he was infected by the spirit of the farm boys who had just won rankings in several national competitions and had returned from failure in international competitions. They refused to admit defeat and did not know what the world was like. Because the words "Train hard, strive to achieve good results, strive to go abroad, and win glory for the country" written on the wall reflect the extraordinary courage of this Farmer Lions team. This slogan was written by Wuzhou Mayor Zhong Xiangting when he visited the Lions to reward them and encouraged them to train hard and compete abroad. After hearing this, coach Deng Minghua asked his teacher to write it. After learning about the hard life of the Lions, seeing a room full of broken training equipment, and witnessing the team members leaping on high poles, Su Yanhui was very excited. After returning home, he spent a month quickly creating a sonorous song with lyricist Huang Zhengzhi. Powerful "Lion of the West River" song. Su Yanhui excitedly drove hundreds of kilometers back to his hometown and asked the county art troupe to sing with simple instruments. The song goes: "We must cross the peak, we must shock the world, we must stand up the backbone of the motherland. We must climb the high stakes, step on the colorful clouds, cross the iron rope, and roar, we must cross the peak, we must shock the world, we must shock the world." This song embodies the valuable spirit of the Lions team members who dare to fight regardless of the heights of the world. It was played when the Lions team was preparing to go abroad for training for the second time to boost morale. This song was also used by the villagers to greet the Lions when they returned from the championship game. After the Lions won the world championship and the reputation of "Lion King of the East", Huo Zhanping's desire to reflect how these rural children brought glory to the country in the form of film and television became even stronger. He made suggestions to the leaders. In early 2005, Liang Runsheng, the production director of Guangxi TV Station, was invited to Teng County and worked with cultural people in Teng County to create "The Lion King of the East". At that time, the scene where Huo Zhanping was excited that his wish was about to come true is still before his eyes. The second is the theme of the movie. Two or three years after the establishment of the peasant lion team in Xuanzhou, they slightly won the lion dance competition in Guangxi. They proposed that the goal of the lion team was to catch up with Guangdong and go nationwide and to the world. However, such ambitions were immediately ridiculed and sneered by others in the office of the County Sports Bureau, calling them fools. With such bold words, the Xuanzhou Lions team must be under a lot of pressure.

No one would have thought that after seven years of hard work, the wishes of these "mud-legged" teenagers who did not receive national sports training subsidies, wore simple clothes, and had a simple diet, but worked hard, sweated a lot, and dared to fight, would come true in 2004. It finally happened in July of this year. They brought glory to their country and won the championship of Malaysia's 6th "Genting Cup" World Lion Competition and the reputation of "Oriental Lion King", which shocked the world of lion dance. Think about the similarities between the goal of the Huanzhou Lions team when they proposed to catch up with Guangdong, go nationwide, and rush into the world, and how Yu Gong vowed to move mountains and was laughed at by others. As an artist, it is impossible for him not to pay attention to society and praise the enterprising spiritual power required for social development. Liang Runsheng and Wang Xiaomin took a fancy to the theme of the fighting spirit of the Xuanzhou Lions. Especially Director Wang, he believes that the difficult journey of the Xuanzhou Lion Team combines the folk traditions of Chinese lion dance, rural areas, and youth, which is novel in film and television themes. At the same time, the education of left-behind teenagers or orphans in modern rural China is an issue that Wang Dao and other far-sighted people who care about society have thought deeply about. Director Wang believes that it would be a pity if such touching material was made into a TV series according to the original plan. Once it is broadcast on TV, it will be difficult to show it again. It should be made into an inspirational movie that encourages young people to grow up healthily, and strive to be watched by primary and secondary school students across the country. , and is determined to win the "Five One Project Award" of the Youth League Central Committee, the "Huabiao Award", the National Cultural Award, and sprint for the International Children's Film Award. We have been following the filming of "The Lion King of the East". At first, because I didn't understand the art of film shooting, I saw that the filming scenes seemed to be pieced together in bits and pieces. I once suspected that the film would be very rough when it was finished. Now that I have watched the sample film, I feel that "The Lion King of the East" is successful through the use of various artistic techniques in the film. At the beginning of the film, a flashback is used to narrate the tense situation of the Lions' game in Malaysia. After winning the championship, the Lions' difficult growth process is slowly unfolded. This structure gives the entire film a layer of memories, making people wonder how this young farmer lion team worked hard to move from a small island to the world and win the championship and bring glory to the country. At the end of the film, the director responded with the scene of the Lions winning the championship in Malaysia, reminding people of the glory of the Lions and bringing the plot back to the climax of the play. Whether a movie is good or not depends on whether it has something to show. Drama uses various plots to connect together, and uses the character's image, language and plot to create typical characters in typical environments. The main characters of "The Lion King of the East" are Deng Bo, coach Deng Mingjie and Youth League Committee Secretary Wu Ming. The main plot of the play is based on the growth of troubled boy and orphan Deng Bo. Deng Bo lost his parents at an early age and was sent to juvenile correctional centers six times. He was an "old acquaintance" of the police and often wandered around society. After being injured by a thief, the criminal investigation team leader asked his girlfriend Wu Ming, secretary of the county party committee, to take him to heal his injuries. At Wu Ming's house, because the criminal investigation captain didn't like him, the playful Deng Bo used a trick to tease the criminal investigation captain by putting lipstick on his back. As secretary of the Youth League Committee, Wu Ming was engaged in youth work. She cared about the growth of teenagers and took in Deng Bo, who was full of slovenliness. She persuaded Deng Mingjie, who was leading a group of teenagers to practice martial arts, to take him in. Deng Bo and Lao Deng were from the same village, and Deng Mingjie knew Deng Bo's "career traces" best. But after Wu Ming's work, Lao Deng took him in. Due to lack of education, Deng Bo lacked patience and hard training spirit for the boring basic martial arts training in the martial arts team. Within a few days of learning martial arts, he wanted to have the hard skills to break bricks with his palms. Deng Bo is still an out-and-out "shit stick" in the martial arts team. He climbed a tree and somersaulted to the Dragon Mother Temple to steal tributes. After being discovered, he claimed that he was the godson of the Dragon Mother. His senior brother Asan’s shoes contained chicken feces from him. In the past, when Lao Deng criticized him for a fight, he would retaliate and kill his wife's little chicken, so the school did not want to accept him as a student. It was under the training of coaches Wu Ming and Deng that his life was changed through lion dance. Seeing that lion dance can make money, Deng Bo and Ah San secretly learned lion dance without even going to school. They wanted to make money through lion dance to reduce the burden on the coach and learn to care about others. In order to earn money, Lao Deng bought lions and asked his children to learn lion dance, and then went out to resume his old business of sailing.

"The Lion King of the East" is based on the Xuanzhou Lion Team. Everyone wants to have more scenes from Teng County in the movie, especially the flowing water around the isolated village, the beautiful and unique scenery, and the simple customs of Xuanzhou. It is indeed missing in the movie. some. Art originates from life and is higher than life. Most of the characters and plots in the film are real. The images of Lao Deng and Wu Ming combine many characters who have devoted their efforts to the growth of the Xuanzhou Lions. The prototype of the troubled boy Deng Bo does exist among the members of the Huanzhou Lions. He is called "Eleven Knives" - he was stabbed eleven times by others when he was messing around in society. When he accompanied Mayor Zhong to perform in France and Beijing, his performance was very outstanding, and he is now the coach of the Lions. In order to make the movie "The Lion King of the East" well, the cultural people of Teng County also spent a lot of effort. In addition to actively providing rich materials about the difficult growth of the Xuanzhou Lions, they also came up with many ideas for the director's reference. Huo Zhanping often used QQ to communicate with Director Wang in Beijing, and some of his fantastic ideas were accepted by Director Wang when he wrote the script. But Director Wang was on a business trip from Guangzhou to Guilin. The laptop where he had written the script was stolen, and many important information stored in the computer were lost. He was so anxious that he almost lost a lot of hair overnight. The script also had to be rewritten, and many good ideas were not realized in the film, which may be a regret.